And anyone coming this way to the midwest after getting out of the area, beers on my friends and me. Columbus is a big marathon city, and I ache for the sadness in Boston. Stay safe, everyone. Boston is an amazing city, and my heart broke today.

Campus is really weird right now. The place was rocking for the marathon and went eerily quiet after the news. Just walking around campus, there are a lot of people hugging each other and crying.

A ton of Eagles run the marathon every year including a few of my friends, so there could have been a lot of us around the area of the explosions. No issues have been reported at last update from BC but prayers would be greatly appreciated.

Sad world we live in. I was on campus in Oklahoma City during the Murrah Bombing in OKC. Didn't realize how bad it was until getting home that night. 1995 was a bit different in information dissemination. My mother in law and father in law went up to help (Nurse & Dentist). He ended up doing some of the forensic dentistry help as well (and one of my wife's young cousins was injured in the bombing, but luckily didn't die).

Was a long time ago but I remember it like yesterday. As we remember all horrific events that touch home :'-(

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I know I'm a bit late to the party, but I am a BU student and I was standing on the street between both explosions when they happened. Huge shock waves and really loud, and it smelled like gunpowder for a few moments right afterwards. I was packed into a crowd shoulder to shoulder, and I remember me and others yelling at everyone in the crowd to not panic and not to trample anyone getting out of the area. We kicked over the race barriers and got people into the street, and by then police had rushed everyone away from the scene. I got this pic before I left, looking at the site of the second blast. http://i.imgur.com/NOzFPb8.jpg

Luckily myself and everyone I know are safe and unharmed, but it was definitely pretty intense. Thanks everyone so much for your thoughts and support for the victims.

Veteran with hearing loss from explosions checking in, I would consider it an injury. I have/will hear ringing in my ears the rest of my life and have been prescribed hearing aids (that I don't wear, because I'm vain).

I was thinking the same thing until I read this post Patton Oswalt made on facebook.

Boston. Fucking horrible.

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."

But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.

But here's what I DO know. If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness.

But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, "The good outnumber you, and we always will."

On the contrary, I love humanity even more today after seeing some of the amazing ways people helped each other out. I'm from Cambridge, and a bunch of my friends were running. One of them had just finished when the explosions went off, and a complete stranger took him and a bunch of other runners and spectators into his nearby apartment when the bombs went off.

I'm listening to the local news right now and it sounds like there is a BU student in critical condition. Praying for everyone tonight. I moved up here last August and it's such a vibrant, youthful place. It's been a terrifying day trying to account for all of my co-workers and friends.

Prayers from College Park. I was in the library when we first saw CNN report it on the TV in the room. About 30 of us just stared us at the TV and it was amazing how insignificant the work in front of us became. Stay safe, Boston.

As someone who lived there and went to Berklee, I must say it's too bad that something like this could happen to such a great city. All of my thoughts go out to you guys and I hope you can get back to kicking ass (figuratively) sooner rather then later.

I went to school in Boston up until coming to Clemson this fall. Probably would have been at the Marathon if I hadn't transfered & had friends who were there (they're all fine). So weird to think about